Re: Help needed for reviving Widget hard drive

Sadly the tools to low level format the Widget and Sun drives have probably been lost to time :(

-J

On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 12:53 AM, CallMeJack <callmejack2000_at_email.domain.hidden>wrote:

>
> Hi Jason,
>
> Interesting experience, I was expecting some high-tech advice but it
> seems that the good old "give-it-a-kick-if-it-doesnt-work" trick does
> sometimes give good results. I will certainly give it a try if I don't
> find other possible faults.The strange thing is that both drives which
> are totally different in their design show similar symptoms. I saw in
> another post that low-formatting could only be done using an apple III
> with a special rom. Do you know if this is also the case with the
> sunrem drive, which is a little more advanced.
>
> Jack.
>
> On Aug 12, 10:56 pm, "Jason Perkins" <perkins.ja..._at_email.domain.hidden> wrote:
> > Jack,
> >
> > My Widget was doing this when I got my Lisa. I tried cleaning
> connections,
> > made sure the brake on the head wasn't stuck, etc... but nothing worked.
> > Finally in frustration I grabbed the head motor and moved it around
> > violently as the drive was on... and it started working!
> >
> > After you have eliminated all other possible faults perhaps try moving
> the
> > head around manually while the drive is on. Now that might also break the
> > drive forever, but if it's already broken...
> >
> > -Jason
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 1:41 AM, CallMeJack <callmejack2..._at_email.domain.hidden
> >wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > Hello,
> >
> > > I have one 10Mb Widget hard drive and one Sunrem 20Mb hard disk that
> > > show the same symptoms : when I power the Lisa 2/10, the disk start to
> > > spin but it is not accessible. It makes a strandge noise, like if
> > > there was a crc arror and that the head was trying to access the some
> > > area again and again (around 1 second interval). I tried to use the
> > > LisaTest but it can't see the drive either. Note that I have a widget
> > > drive that works fine on that Lisa, so the problem does not come from
> > > the Lisa.
> >
> > > Any suggestion ?
> >
> > > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > > Jack
>
> >
>

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